Card-holder



M. MEYERSONJ CARD HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 26. 1917.

Patented Jan 25, 1921.

l/VVEA/TUR I ATTORNEY NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX MEYEBSON, OF NEW YORK N. Y. Y

CARD-HOLDER.

T 0 all) whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MAX MnYERsoN, residing at New York, in the county ofNew York and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Card-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a ,card holder such as may be used uponpackages, boxes, trunks, and the like, and the object of the inventionis to provide a holder which may be permanently fixed to the package andwhich is adapted to carry an address or like card, in such a manner thatthe card may be inserted and removed at will, and to provide the holderwith means to positively retain the card against accidentaldisplacement."

A further object, is to provide the body part of the holder with a welldefined guideway along which the card may he slid into and out ofoperative position, and to provide a card retaining member connectedwith the body part adapted to move from a retaining position obstructingthe guideway to a non-retaining position entirely free of the guide-way.

A further object is to provide means for latching the retaining memberagainst accidental movement out of retaining position.

A further object is to so mount the retaining member that it will befrictionally yieldingly held in any position to which it may be moved. I

Other objects and aims of the invention,

moreor less specific than those referred to above,'will be in partobvious and in part pointed out .in the course of the followingdescription of the elements, combinations,

arrangements or" parts and applications of principles, constituting theinvention; and

v the scope of protection contemplated will be indicatedin the appendedclaims.

In the accompanying'drawings which are to be taken as a part of thisspecification,

and in which l have shown merely a preferred form ot embodiment of theinven- 1. tion. V

Figure l is a perspective view of a package illustrating the card holderof this invention as in use applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the card holder detached, illustrating a cardretained therein. I

"fully closed.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 25 1921 Application filedOctober 26, 1917. Serial No. 198,584.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary view showing the manner in which thecard retaming member is mounted and operated,

and Fig. dis a fragmentary perspective view illustrating a modifiedconstruction.

Referring to the drawings for describing in detail the structure whichis illustrated therein, the reference character L indicates themain orbody'portion of the card holder. This comprises upper and lower membersland 2 andan end member 3, all connected together and preferably stampedfrom a "single sheet of suitable material such as and rigidly connectedto the surface of the packagabbx or other article, as 6 (Fig.1) by meansof rivets or other fastening means 7.

The card retaining member, as H, is

adapted to move into andout of position closing the open end of theguide-way, and, i

asan exemplary way of so mounting the retaining member, it is shown tobe pivotally connected to the member 1 of the body. For this purpose itsupper end is forced under the end portion of the memher 1 and ispivotally connected thereto as by a pivot member 8. The lower or freeend of the retaining member may be squeezed into andbut of positionbeneath the adjacent end portion of the member 2 of the body.

Erictional engagement of the card retaining member with the undersurfaces of the adjacent end portions of the members 1 and 2 may besufficient to hold the card retaining member against accidental openingmovement, but preferably a positively acting latch member, as 9, isemployed. The latch member shown is made of a small piece of springmaterial.

It is connected with the card retaining member and is prov vided with ahear 0 arranged to enter an opening 11 formed in the. member 2 and toengage behind a shoulder 12 oil? said opening 11 when the card retainingmember is Before the card retaining member can be swung open the head 10may be pressed downwardly by the operators finger so as to disengagefrom the shoulder 12.

The retaining member is preferably fitted with an off-set portion 13 tocorrespond with the off-set portions 4 of the body part, the off-setportion 13 being intended to stand in position over the adjacent edge ofthe card after the card has been slid into the guide way 5 as clearlyseen in Fig. 2.

The pivotal mounting of the card retaining member is such that whensaid'member is moved to the open position no part thereof obstructs freemovement of the card into and out of the guide-way 5.

As suggested by the lettering appearing uponthe card in Fig. 2, thisholder may be very advantageously used for retaining cards which may bereversed from time to time, that is, with.a card bearing a forwardingaddress on one side and a returning address on the other side, the samecard may be used to carry the package to its first destination and thenreversed to carry the package back to its original holder. Packages ofarticles to'be washed, for instance, may be sent to the laundry, and returned to the owner, with the least possible confusion.

In the modification Fig. 5, a structure is illustrated which diflersfromothat of the previous figures only in that the off-set por tions 4and 13 are formed by building up the parts of the device from pieces, or

'strips, laid one upon the other, the inner edges of the underlyingstrips as 14, in each case being inset with respect to the inner edgesof the overlying strips 15 so as to form the guide-way 5. Thisarrangement also readily provides'recesses, as 16, beneath which theends of the card retaining member are received.

The structure shown in Fig. 5, also has a certain advantage over thestructure shown in the other figures, in that it enables the 'use ofscrap strips of material,

' such as sheet fiber, and avoids necessity for the use of the expensivedies which would be necessary to shape up the parts as in the otherfigures. In a factory where boxes and cases are being manufactured, cardholders constructed as in Fig. 5, may, therefore, be formed and attachedto the cases at extremely small cost.-

As many changes could be made in this construction without departingfrom the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims, itis intended that all matter contained in theabove description or shownin the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative onlyand not in a limiting sense. y I 7 Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A cardholder adapted for attachment to the surface of an article for retaininga card aflixed to said article, said card holder comprising a bodymember and a retaining member to retain the card within the body member,the body member being substantially of U-shape in general contour andbeing of a cross section to provide relatively outer marginal portionsadapted for attachment to the surface of the article and relativelyinner marginal portions disposed to stand away from the underlyingsurface poi: tions of the article so as to provide a guideway betweenthemselves and the article to receive marginal portions of the card. the

retaining member comprising a strip of ma terial having one of its endspivotally connected to one leg of the U, the opposite end of said stripof material being adapted to swing into and out of position between theend portion of the other leg of the U and the underlying portion of thesurface of the article, and a latch device cooperative between said lastmentioned portions of the body member and the retaining member to holdthe retaining member against accidental opening movement out ofretaining position. j

2. A card holder comprisinga plurality of strips of sheet material, saidstrips being arranged upon the surface of an article for retaining a.card fixed to said surface of the article, the strips being connectedwith the article so that certain of said strips ofi greater widthoverlie others of said strips of lesser width thus providing portions ofthe first mentioned strips overhanging the second mentioned strips andspaced from said surface of the article, the disposition of the stripsbeing such as thereby to provide a pocket within which a card may beretained fiat upon the. surface of said article,

, and a further strip having one of its ends pivotally engaged betweenan overhanging portion of one of the superposed strips and theunderlying portion of the article and having its opposite end disposedto swing about said pivot into and out of position between anoverhanging portion of another of said super-posed strips and theadjacent underlying portion of the article to thereby serve as aremovable retaining member for the card.

3. A card holder comprising a plurality of strips of sheet material,saidstrips being arranged upon the surface of an article for retaining acard fixed to said surface of the article, said strips being connectedwith the article so that certain of said strips overlie others of saidstrips, portions of the first mentioned strips overhanging the secondmentioned strips and spaced from said surface of the article, thedisposition of the strips bein e such as thereby to provide a pocketformed partly by the surface of said article and partly by said stripswithin which pocket :1 card may be retained flat upon the surface ofsaid article. and a further strip disposed to form a closure for saidpocket.

4. A card holder comprising a plurality of stripsof sheet material, saidstrips being arranged upon the surface of an article for retaining acard fixed to said surface of the article, said strips being connectedwith the article so that certain of said strips of greater width overlieothers of said strips of lesser width, thus providing portions of thefirst mentioned strips overhanging the sec- 0nd mentioned strips andspaced from said surface of the article, the disposition of the stripsbeing su 11 as thereby to provide a pocket formed partly by the surfaceof said article and partly by said strips within which pocket a card maybe retained flat upon the surface of said article, and a further stripdisposed to form a closure for said pocket, together with means wherebyto facilitate convenient removal of the card from the pocket.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

MAX l\'IEYERSON. Witnesses L. Gnssronn HANDY, MAY SoHULz.

